HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- The traffic collision alert that helped avoid a crash between two jets approaching Honolulu International Airport in January triggered the highest, most urgent warning ...
A Russian airline pilot flying high over Germany last week got just a few seconds to make a life-or-death decision: follow instructions from his on-board collision avoidance system to climb away from ...
The holiday season tends to be a quiet one at the office, straining the skills of the constant newsgatherer. But over the transom this time came a significant piece of news regarding the venerable ...
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How TCAS Systems Detect and Prevent Collisions Before Pilots Even See the Danger
When two aircraft are unknowingly on a collision course, TCAS - the Traffic Collision Avoidance System — comes alive. Alarms ...
Obviously encouraged by the fact that no midair accidents involving commercial aircraft have taken place since traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (TCAS ...
LAST WEEK`S tragic mid-air collision between a small plane and an Aeromexico jetliner in California bears a strong parallel to the person who dies of a disease shortly before a cure is found. If the ...
In order to facilitate the integration of mini-UAV systems in controlled airspace, CATUAV began several months ago the development of a complete TCAS system (Traffic Collision Avoidance System). This ...
A Chicago-bound Northwest Airlines 747 out of Tokyo and another jumbo jet came within a scant 400 feet of one another as they averted a collision that could have claimed nearly 700 lives, the ...
ELLIOTT AVIATON won FAA supplemental type certification approval to install the Collins TCAS-4000 traffic alert and collision avoidance system in all King Air 200, 300 and 350 series turboprops. The ...
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Planes have high-tech systems to stop midair crashes. So what went wrong in Washington?
On Wednesday night, US time, a passenger jet and a US Army helicopter collided at a low altitude near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and crashed into the Potomac River. A total of 60 ...
SEATTLE — A lone safety inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration who oversees flight operations at Horizon Air has stuck his neck out to insist that the airline’s jets cannot take off with ...
TCAS alerts pilots about a possible collision and issues a resolution advisory. (Photo: Pexels) Mid-air collisions of aircraft should have been a thing of the past with the technology that exists in ...
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